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Basically nothing from before 2010 that I posted online can be found except for some fragments on the Wayback Machine.

Username checks out. That’s interesting, I don’t doubt these experiences happen. In fact I thought you and OP would be the more common experience.

Acknowledged OP edit aside…

I can’t say I’ve experienced that illusion myself. I do wonder if there’s something to your question that has to do with Circadian Rhythm or waking up more when you see sunlight.

Calling someone cowardly was my understanding of chickenshit.

1990’s? At least in Canada.

That I didn’t know!

In the future, buy loose kernels in jars. They’re the cheapest popcorn in the store. For now you could just tear open the bags.

I don’t think this is challenging enough to NEED a glass lid but it does help of course. A metal lid will do. You can just go by ear. Once the popping frequency dies off, stop.

Avocado oil has a very high smoke point, you won’t reach it making popcorn. I’ll explain why. Add some to the pan. I use quite a bit, I like it better than butter so it’s the only fat I add.

Optionally buy the salts/fake butter combo flavor cinemas use. Sift it over cold pan to taste. Otherwise, use what you like for seasoning.

Turn the stove to max heat.

Dump in kernels.

Cover and wait until a small handful of kernels to start popping.

TURN OFF THE STOVE. The residual heat in the stove/pan will fully pop all your kernels without burning the earliest kernels to pop. Shake your pan gently now and then to get the kernels stuck in the already popped corn to drop back down.

That’s it!

Shows big font on desktop too.

The title maybe, unless that was a stylistic choice.

You’ll be fine for now so long as you’re not already a Person of Interest of a three letter agency.

despite never feeling safe or in control behind the wheel

I have anxiety and learning to drive was a temporary hell for me too. I don’t really have a choice unless I want to work at McDonalds until I die of old age. The career opportunities aren’t accessible without a car. That’s big empty Alberta with shite underfunded public transportation for you though.

If do you eventually have to drive, better not wait or the fear after that crash will cripple you the longer the gap is.

So the question is really whether or not you can get by without learning the skill. You do eventually gain confidence via practice. However yeah, there’s always inherent danger from you and any human sharing the road with you. Everyone will make mistakes. Some end very badly. Ultimately it’s your choice. You should know by now if you can potentially survive independently without a vehicle or not where you live.

This you can ignore if you don’t respond to everything new or scary in your life like you are with driving:

I had a friend who spoke like this all the time and she ended up being the living embodiment of Learned Helplessness. I could elaborate, but it’s a dreadful story and ends in a very early totally preventable death. I worry your loved ones are enabling you here by dealing with the hard stuff. The people you crashed into by your BF, and your dad for the aftermath.

Nope!

Ecosia is in partnership with Qwant developing a EU based indexer. Quite excited myself.

They’ve stopped using exposed speaker grilles so you can’t shove a screw driver into the speakers anymore :(

Ad blaring pumps are in Canada too. Shell is the most obnoxious.

Both groups are beliefs without evidence and authoritarian daddy issues, make sense to me.

I know, I’d just rather torrent it’s faster than DDL from them and makes a big difference with multi terabyte romsets.

It’s extremely lame they can’t be bothered to fix whatever is wrong. They also don’t warn people the feature doesn’t actually… work. Why is it even an option on the page???

Please don’t give Amazon money for a shitty android stick. It’s rather locked down too and the GUI is ad riddled. A lot of playback bugs that I don’t have on a competitor product. There’s many better alternatives with less god awful remote controls as well.

Just make sure you’re not buying some generic Chinese thing with a compromised linux kernel.

Great speeds? Using Jdownloader2 if I go above 3.8MB/s with more than 2 connections I get throttled to worse than dial up speeds.

Occasionally it’ll hit a single game that’ll take days to finish for no apparent reason no matter what. It’s maddening.

Still better than archive.org’s broken fucking torrents that’ll never ever reach 100% completion. You’d think an archival site would care to fix that after YEARS for FUCKS SAKE, but nope!

The list of who not to avoid I think is much shorter.

While I fixed my diet that resulted in severe GERD, and the symptoms are lessened, I still have more pain throughout the week than not a year later. I have a family doctor, I just don’t respond to gut drugs even after eating properly and drinking only water or fake milk unsweetened Almond/Coconut like a saint.

Not sure if regret is the right word when I don’t consider myself very responsible for beginning my poor habits in the depths of brutal depression spells however. Never really “good” either, so hard to quit once I start something. I eat better purely motivated by the pain becoming constant.

Possible future regret is if I get cancer that’s linked to smoking cigarettes or vaping. I don’t smoke much, limited to twice a day for the past ten years, but combining some smoke inhalation with near constant THC vaping is probably a pretty bad combo. I don’t truly want to quit either of them at the moment, so…yeah.